A blog of my epic adventures around Britain, scouring the British countryside for the most dangerous, most fearsome and most deadly creatures known to man….well sort of
(It’s actually more about the interesting creatures I see with a few nice pictures I take of them – but that doesn’t sound as cool)

Monday, 9 July 2007

Darland Banks

The grassland here was alive with butterflies, moths and grasshoppers and were full of flowers. I came here to photograph a marbled white (top) and wasn't disappointed. There were plenty flyingaround, and I managed to photograph this torpid specimen, who obligingly sat there with its wings open will I took a load of photos. Also there was a species of day flying moth (2nd from top) fluttering around. I turned over a stone, looking for a slowworms and found a a different type of 'worm' (neither are worms really - a slowworm is a legless lizard) a glowworm (which is a type of beetle) larva (2nd from bottom). And to finish of the trip I found a Stag beetle female on the pavement on the way home (bottom)